ap.jpg Unit 7, Segment 3


The following is based on the topic outline found in the AP US History "Acorn Guide". Although it is not necessarily exactly what you need to know for the exam, it will provide you with an "idea" of what you are reading for (while taking "Fresh Notes," of course).

19. The New Era: 1920s
  • The business of America and the consumer economy
  • Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
  • The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment
  • Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition
  • The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women

20. The Great Depression and the New Deal
  • Causes of the Great Depression
  • The Hoover administration's response

Kennedy Chapters for this Segment

  • Chapter 31 - The War to End War (pages 705-727)
  • Chapter 32 - American Life in the Roaring Twenties (pages 728-752)
  • Chapter 33 - The Politics of Boom and Bust (pages 753-776)

The "New York" Quiz Questions for this section


Kennedy Exam Multiple Choice Questions for this section


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